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Photoshopping the Hubble images

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.Roockley.
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Hubble images are made, not born. Images must be woven together from the incoming data from the cameras, cleaned up and given colors that bring out features that eyes would otherwise miss. In this video from HubbleSite.org, online home of the Hubble Space Telescope, a Hubble-imaged galaxy comes together on the screen at super-fast speed.

Learn more about how Hubble images are made by visiting Behind the Pictures.

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/behind_the_pictures/



amazing.
Mar 26 2011 10:13AM
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Flying~Squirrel
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um yeah, i thinks that its common knowledge that the space photos are enhanced...
Mar 26 2011 11:33AM
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derpina
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I didn't even watch that video and I could do that.

Doesn't mean the pics are fake if that's what your implying...

But yeah, they're enhanced. Just like most boobs these days.
Mar 26 2011 11:45AM
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steezeeepolizeee
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Hubble tele aimed back at the earth, first ever ski space follow cam???
Mar 26 2011 12:05PM
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FBGM
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yeah that doesn't mean the objects are fake, its just not possible to capture an image of something like a galaxy or a nebula with an optical lens alone. the exposures on those things are average 9 hours, and they do it in pieces and then put the images together. shit like protostars you can't see without infrared. it's not disappointing, that doesn't necessarily mean that isn't what the objects look like. it's just a lot of work to put the images together.
Mar 26 2011 12:08PM
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yeahno
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D:
Mar 26 2011 12:13PM
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FBGM
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ill just leave this here for no reason at all...

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Mar 26 2011 12:14PM
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.Roockley.
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no hate intended, just amazed at how much work goes into it

10 hours of rotating, aligning and matching images to create it
Mar 26 2011 8:03PM
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Winston_Smith
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i don't know why but i found that absolutely hiarious

Mar 26 2011 8:06PM
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FBGM
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probably because i'm hilarious.
Mar 29 2011 4:24PM
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Bonzalo
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Mar 29 2011 4:31PM
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.Roockley.
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those are amazing
Mar 29 2011 5:18PM
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pomme-de-terre
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thats how brainfarm filmed the new "In Flight" movie they have coming out. for a couple shots they actually commissioned another giant space telescope to follow-cam the Hubble while it follow-cammed travis rice.

first they were just gonna use RED cameras and shoot the whole thing in 3d, but they found that the hubble telescope option was much more expensive and chose that instead.
Mar 29 2011 6:02PM
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Fluttershy
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so galaxies are fake now?

Mar 29 2011 6:10PM
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theabortionator
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Space may be the final frontier but it's made it a Hollywood basement.
Mar 29 2011 6:13PM
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RudyGarmisch
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The pictures to a certain extent are false, but the clouds of dust and fields of starts and galaxies are still there. Instead of false color, just think of it as a wider spectrum that we're trying to visualize.
Mar 29 2011 7:28PM
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FBGM
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ohmynostalgia

Mar 29 2011 8:01PM
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FBGM
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apod.nasa.gov
Mar 29 2011 8:02PM
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iLLbiLLy
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we had to do this in my intro to astronomy class. I didn't watch the vid but we'd take separate images with red green and blue filters and combine them into one.
Mar 29 2011 8:03PM
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Flying~Squirrel
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the reason they dont look "real" and need to be enhanced in 3d is because they are actually painted on a wall a few miles above the flat surface of the earth.
Mar 29 2011 8:08PM
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